Stachyurus Praecox

Unique pendulous blooms hang from the otherwise bare stems in winter the showy racemes dripping with tiny creamy yellow bell like flowers. Stachyurus praecox early stachyurus is a species of flowering plant in the family stachyuraceae native to japan.

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Stachyurus praecox

Slow grower to 10 feet tall and about as wide with slender polished looking. Plants reach 4 10 tall with a similar spread. The plant is known for its colorful late winter to early spring flowers that bloom before the foliage emerges.

Long 10 cm and the flower buds will open to reveal small bell shaped. In late winter to early spring they will elongate to 4 in. The most common stachyurus praecox is found throughout japan where it thrives in soils that are moist humus rich and slightly acidic.

The shrub creates a fountain like effect with arching branches and an overall rounded profile. Flower buds form in autumn and overwinter on the plant in pendant catkin like racemes that hang from the leaf axils. Full sun partial shade.

The plants have leaves with serrate margins. Plants in this genus are sometimes commonly called spiketail in reference to the flowers. While dormant and leafless pendant racemes of 10 20 flower buds resembling strings of pearls hang in a row from each gracefully arching branch.

It is a spreading deciduous shrub growing to 4 m 13 ft tall by 3 m 10 ft wide. An upright deciduous shrub with beautiful green and cream variegated foliage that drops in fall revealing dramatic mahogany red stems. Us upper south zone 6 ms middle south zone 7 ls lower south zone 8.

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